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Give the movie of your life a happy ending…

• Life is a movie, and you’re the star. Give it a happy ending. Joan Rivers
• My mission is to live each day like a fantastic movie, a laugh out loud comedy with a little drama, lots of love, a great moral, and a happy ending. Ms Steele
• Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won. Terri Windling
• Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. Albert Einstein
• A comedy isn’t about being funny…a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. Gary D. Schmidt
• …one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings. Kristin Hunter
• Everyone deserves a happy ending. Jodi Picoult
• If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough. Cooper Edens
• If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it. Michael Buckley
• Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings. Barbara Corcoran
• You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree, you could be the sun that never leaves the sky, this might be the happy ending without the ending, this might be a reason to try. David Levithan
• You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Nora Roberts

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…by writing your own story…

• A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there. Alan Cohen
• If we own the story then we can write the ending. Brene Brown

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…even if your beginning hasn’t been happy

• What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings. Ibn Taymiyyah
• Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be. Michelle Yeoh

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A happy ending has to be fought for

• Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices. Kim Harrison
• I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess. Donatella Versace
• Mirror sighed. “I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don’t just happen by accident- you can’t wait for one. You have to make them happen. Michael Buckley

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Have hope and optimism that things will end happily

• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. Michael Morpurgo
• Believe that your story will come to a satisfying close. You don’t need to dwell on thoughts about the end of your life, but live each scene like eventually there will be that moment when the conflict is resolved and you leave the theatre pleased with how it all turned out. It may not be the actual case — tragedy is an unfortunate reality — but you should play out your scenes like the final act is going to be epic, beautiful, and worth the long treacherous trip you took to get there. Movies are only so long, so use up every frame as best as you can. Patrick Allan
• Maybe my movie isn’t over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie is going to end badly, something dramatic happens, which leads to the happy ending. Matthew Quick
• So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending. Matthew Quick
• If you knew everything was really was all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right. Esther Hicks
• Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around – and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child. Stephen King
• I don’t want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings. Matthew Quick
• I’ve come with a happy heart from the beginning, and hope there is a happy ending. Jaejoong
• It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too. Sharon Kay Penman
• You’ve done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?”” “”Oh my Lord, yes.”” Bernadette’s hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. “”I guess I would. I’ve had about a hundred of them. Karen Joy Fowler
• People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Sonia Sotomayor
• What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn’t it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack? Sarah Ban Breathnach
• I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise. Elisabeth Elliot

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When tragedy strikes, remember happy endings rarely come in the middle of the story

• Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. Peter S. Beagle
• Happy endings must come at the end of something,’ the Walrus pointed out. ‘If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile. Salman Rushdie

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A bit of tragedy in life makes a happy ending all the sweeter

• Last, but not least — in fact, this is most important — you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better. Satyajit Ray
• That’s what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings. Garry Trudeau
• Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow’s richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love. Andrew Solomon
• What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. William Dean Howells

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Many people love happy endings…

• Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief. Liane Moriarty
• I love a happy ending. They are so rare. Stephenie Meyer
• I’m a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. Tammara Webber
• People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they’re honest. I’m just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending. Augusten Burroughs

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…and the older we are, the more we like the idea of happy endings

• That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. Alice Munro
• When we’re young, we like happy endings. When we’re a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we’re older still, we realize happy endings aren’t so bad after all. Margaret Atwood

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Happy endings are a kind of national belief

• The happy ending is our national belief. Mary McCarthy

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These days, movie watchers expect happy endings

• I always try to do true endings and that’s where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings. Joe Eszterhas
• That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short. Nick Hornby

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Some believe strongly in happy endings…

• Though I am not an avid reader but I like romantic books. Love is a good thing. At times in love, there are disappointments…one must not keep expectations. I like to be positive in love. I believe in happy endings. Katrina Kaif
• Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in. Sarah Dessen

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…especially when it comes to love…

• Oh god, Let all lovers be content. Give them happy endings. Let their lives be celebrations.  Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love.  Rumi

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…but the truth is that love is never a final destination

• Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed. Jodi Picoult
• Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another’s well-being is more important than one’s own. Melissa de la Cruz

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Of course, not all stories have happy endings

• Stories don’t always have happy endings.”” This stopped him. Because they didn’t, did they? That’s one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn’t expect. Patrick Ness
• Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories. Kristin Hannah
• Stories don’t always have happy endings. Patrick Ness
• Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories. Kristin Hannah

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Many don’t believe in happy endings…

• There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right. J. Watson
• There are so many things I can’t believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I’ll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don’t have contingencies and conditions. Jodi Picoult

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…and some, especially writers, even hate happy endings as being sentimental and trite

• Happy endings make me puke. Roman Polanski
• I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. George R. R. Martin
• If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately. Daniel Handler
• In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. Daniel Handler

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In good writing, a non-corny happy ending is extremely hard to pull off

• Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn’t seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly. Eric Drooker
• You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. Paul Feig
• Any time you’re trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it’s very difficult because it’s been done before and you don’t want to be manipulative. Tim Robbins

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Writers often get more respect when they don’t write a happy ending…

• You always get more respect when you don’t have a happy ending. Julia Quinn

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…but unhappy endings can be trite too

• Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings. David O. Russell

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Maybe it’s true that there is no such things as a truly happy ending in real life

• There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They’re totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point. Peter David
• Real life’s nasty. It’s cruel. It doesn’t care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. Darren Shan
• I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending. Dorothy Parker
• You can’t have an ending. It’s impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You’re never at the end until you die.  E. Lockhart
• And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature,” Coach Bob declared. “So what?” my father said. “Right!” cried Iowa Bob. “That’s the point: So what?” Thus the family maxim was that an unhappy ending did not undermine a rich and energetic life. This was based on the belief that there were no happy endings. John Irving
• The worst isn’t done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly) George R. R. Martin
• I’ve been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending. Jodi Picoult
• In this life there ain’t no happy endings; only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance. Cole
• It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don’t kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound. Willa Cather
• Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn’t have to be dripping in deep significance. Roger Ebert
• What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, ‘They lived happily ever after,’ and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year. Scott Westerfeld
• There are no happy endings. George R. R. Martin

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…or at least, certainly not a guarantee of one

• Life isn’t a book. There’s no guarantee of a happy ending. C. Cast
• Life isn’t a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between. Kristen Bell

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Life always ends in grief and death…

• Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief. Oliver Gaspirtz
• If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no happy endings.  All accomplishments are washed away by death or by the next moment.  Frederick Lenz
• I don’t believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things – what are they called? – hamsters: all die like flies. So there’s no point avoiding it. Raymond Briggs
• It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as death exists. Mehmet Murat Ildan
• There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads ‘He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End’. Eoin Colfer
• My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless… I’m not going to have a happy ending. Marya Hornbacher

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…and maybe the greatest purpose of religion and spirituality is to help us believe in a happy ending after that

• At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. Huston Smith
• If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question. Stephen King

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Happy endings, many argue, are a lie, a fantasy, an illusion…

• I’m not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming. Melissa Joan Hart
• Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that ‘forever’ that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days. Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there’s no happily ever after. You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books. Ellen Hopkins
• Why then you’re as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust ‘reality’ and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings. Ray Bradbury
• Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they’re not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after — that’s bullshit. Three weeks later he’s beating her up and she’s suing for divorce and he’s got cancer. Robert Altman
• I don’t believe in happy endings. Jeanette Winterson
• People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible. Margaret Atwood
• These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. Douglas Sirk
• Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied. Steven Weber

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…only existing in some books and movies…

• You want happy endings, read cookbooks. Dean Young
• You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books. Ellen Hopkins
• Happy endings are a luxury of fiction. Trudi Canavan

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…especially trashy romance novels…

• For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph — and in an uncertain world, that’s very comforting. Leigh Michaels
• I’ve always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending. Ruth Glick

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…and fairy tales…

• Children understand that ‘once upon a time’ refers not only–not even primarily–to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power. Stephen Mitchell
• The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids. Angelina Jolie

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The truth is, happy endings don’t even really exist in many fairy tales

• I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there’s nothing happy about most fairytale endings. Joe Wright
• I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending. Julie Kagawa
• ‘Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.’ That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. Jane Yolen

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Some say there is no such thing as a happy ending because, in life, there is no such thing as a true ending

• Happy endings are just stories that haven’t finished yet. Angelina Jolie
• There are no happy endings, because nothing ends. Peter S. Beagle
• And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead. Erin Morgenstern
• True stories seldom have endings. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story. Frances Hardinge
• Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending. Jeanette Winterson
• There are no happy endings… There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories – perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years – and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on. Charles de Lint
• True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love. Alexander the Great
• I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don’t believe in happy endings is because I don’t believe in endings. Edward Abbey
• Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly. Susanna Kaysen
• If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now. Stephenie Meyer
• This might be the happy ending without the ending. David Levithan
• Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story. Rick Warren
• Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings. Neil Gaiman

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…and this is especially true of true love

• True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love. Alexander the Great
• True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you. Barbara Johnson
• If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not. Chuck Palahniuk
• Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending – simply because it doesn’t end as long as love is pure and true. Amit Abraham

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Perhaps there are no happy endings, only happy pauses

• Happy ending are only a pause. Jeanette Winterson
• Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses. Brian K. Vaughan
• There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action. Lauren Oliver

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A happy ending is where you to choose to stop the story

• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles
• A happy ending isn’t really the end. It’s just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. Leah Stewart
• To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it ‘the ending’. Mahatma Gandhi
• For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it’s more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk. Jill McCorkle
• Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale. Linda Gordon
• My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. Leah Stewart

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Instead of a happy ending, maybe we should strive for happy beginnings…

• There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal “Once upon a time.” Stephen King
• At this point in my life, I’m not looking for any happy endings. I’m just looking to get things started. Jonathan Tropper
• Happy endings start with new beginnings. Luanne Rice
• Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending. Federico Fellini

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…and happy middles

• I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose. John Green
• There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start. Shel Silverstein

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Instead of a happy ending, maybe we should try to be a happy person now…

• There are no happy endings, there are only happy people. Dorothy Gilman
• And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live. Stephen King

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…aiming for happy moments and happy days

• There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there’s not a thing you can do about it. Jonathan Tropper
• I was free. Every day, when you’re on the run, is the whole of your life.  Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.  Gregory David Roberts
• Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift
• I’ve spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love… I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days. Drew Barrymore
• No one’s place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn’t about how it ends. It’s about the moments between. It’s about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. … Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen. Jennifer Armintrout
• The older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow. Drew Barrymore
• This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can’t imagine a life without. Breathless moments. Selena Gomez
• Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment. Ernst Junger
• Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. Albert Einstein

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Instead of a happy destinations, maybe we should aim for happy journeys

• I don’t believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys. George Clooney
• I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life. George Clooney
• You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey. Esther Hicks

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Instead of a happy ending, maybe we should aim for a story worth telling…

• Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling. Lucian
• Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn’t have a happy ending – but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now. Stephenie Meyer
• The sad part about happy endings is there’s nothing to write about. Tammy Wynette
• Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad story. David Blatt

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…and an ending that is satisfying, even if turns out to be sad

• The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending. Orson Scott Card
• You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending. Lurlene McDaniel

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Life keeps us guessing as to whether life will end happily or not…

• And that’s the way of a real tale. Take anyone that you’re fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don’t know. And you don’t want them to. R. R. Tolkien
• That’s how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren’t, and more often there are shades of gray. Emily Giffin

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…and a happy ending can take many unexpected forms

• Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways Jane Green
• Happy endings come in different packages. Jason F. Wright

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Maybe a true happy ending is nothing more than the freedom to be who we are

• The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. Bobby Goodspeed. James Howe

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And one thing is sure, you don’t need a Prince to have a happy ending

• I don’t need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending. Katy Perry
• Princes don’t come around everyday, and happy endings don’t grow on trees. Jodi Picoult

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Lighter note

• You want happy endings, read cookbooks. Dean Young
• What are you reading?” Owen asks. “Charlotte’s Web,” Liz says. “It’s really sad. One of the main characters just died.” “You ought to read the book from end to beginning,” Owen jokes. “That way, no one dies, and it’s always a happy ending. Gabrielle Zevin

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